17 January 2004 (Vol 328, Issue 7432)

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Editor's Choice

Doctors mangled by “justice”

BMJ 2004;328:0.8 (Published 15 January 2004)

News

Shipman found dead in prison cell

BMJ 2004;328:123.1 (Published 15 January 2004)

WHO confirms avian flu outbreak in Hanoi

BMJ 2004;328:123.2 (Published 15 January 2004)

In brief

BMJ 2004;328:124.1 (Published 15 January 2004)

Inadequate regulations undermine India's health care

BMJ 2004;328:124.2 (Published 15 January 2004)

Risk of cancer from mobile phones is unclear

BMJ 2004;328:124.3 (Published 15 January 2004)

Urgent action is needed to tackle smoking in armed forces

BMJ 2004;328:125.1 (Published 15 January 2004)

London hospital to face High Court for allegedly refusing to resuscitate disabled girl

BMJ 2004;328:125.2 (Published 15 January 2004)

Professor Mike Richards

BMJ 2004;328:126.1 (Published 15 January 2004)

Dr Roger Boyle

BMJ 2004;328:126.2 (Published 15 January 2004)

Professor Louis Appleby

BMJ 2004;328:126.3 (Published 15 January 2004)

Professor Ian Philp

BMJ 2004;328:126.4 (Published 15 January 2004)

Dr David Colin-Thome

BMJ 2004;328:127.1 (Published 15 January 2004)

Professor Al Aynsley-Green

BMJ 2004;328:127.2 (Published 15 January 2004)

Harry Cayton

BMJ 2004;328:127.3 (Published 15 January 2004)

Professor Sir George Alberti

BMJ 2004;328:127.4 (Published 15 January 2004)

University fee changes may deter poor students from studying medicine

BMJ 2004;328:128.1 (Published 15 January 2004)

Vasopressin for cardiac arrest increases chances of survival

BMJ 2004;328:128.2 (Published 15 January 2004)

Editorials

Health tsars

BMJ 2004;328:117 (Published 15 January 2004)

Recipients of blood or blood products “at vCJD risk”

BMJ 2004;328:118 (Published 15 January 2004)

A revised classification of headache disorders

BMJ 2004;328:119 (Published 15 January 2004)

Long term cognitive dysfunction in older people after non-cardiac surgery

BMJ 2004;328:120 (Published 15 January 2004)

Ethics review roulette: what can we learn?

BMJ 2004;328:121 (Published 15 January 2004)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Death of the teaching autopsy: Autopsy findings are important to all clinicians, including general practitioners

BMJ 2004;328:165.1 (Published 15 January 2004)

Death of the teaching autopsy: Hospital and coroners' postmortem examinations are different, not least in payment

BMJ 2004;328:165.2 (Published 15 January 2004)

Death of the teaching autopsy: Advances in technology have not reduced the value of the autopsy

BMJ 2004;328:165.3 (Published 15 January 2004)

Death of the teaching autopsy: In Hong Kong teaching autopsies have been championed in public mortuaries

BMJ 2004;328:166.1 (Published 15 January 2004)

Death of the teaching autopsy: Autopsy is a success story in Cuba

BMJ 2004;328:166.2 (Published 15 January 2004)

Death of the teaching autopsy: Histopathologists should not obtain consent for autopsy

BMJ 2004;328:166.3 (Published 15 January 2004)

Death of the teaching autopsy: Summary of responses

BMJ 2004;328:167.1 (Published 15 January 2004)

Letters - continued

Timing of drug treatment is crucial

BMJ 2004;328:167.2 (Published 15 January 2004)

Timing of simvastatin treatment: Results are not what really matters

BMJ 2004;328:167.3 (Published 15 January 2004)

Timing of simvastatin treatment: Results are not strong enough to change practice

BMJ 2004;328:167.4 (Published 15 January 2004)

Timing of simvastatin treatment: Trial is not reported according to CONSORT guidelines

BMJ 2004;328:167.5 (Published 15 January 2004)

Timing of simvastatin treatment: What about the shift workers?

BMJ 2004;328:168.1 (Published 15 January 2004)

Timing of simvastatin treatment: Authors' reply

BMJ 2004;328:168.2 (Published 15 January 2004)

Timing of simvastatin treatment: No matter the time of day, does UK policy reflect the evidence?

BMJ 2004;328:168.3 (Published 15 January 2004)

Resuscitation in pregnancy article omitted several points

BMJ 2004;328:168.4 (Published 15 January 2004)

Parents key to reducing overweight in children:Marketing targets children

BMJ 2004;328:169.1 (Published 15 January 2004)

Parents key to reducing overweight in children:Political pressure is needed

BMJ 2004;328:169.2 (Published 15 January 2004)

Parents key to reducing overweight in children:Health Development Agency responds

BMJ 2004;328:169.3 (Published 15 January 2004)

Obituaries

This week's Obituaries section

Sir George Smart

BMJ 2004;328:170.1 (Published 15 January 2004)

William Garden Hendry

BMJ 2004;328:170.2 (Published 15 January 2004)

Robert Hodkinson

BMJ 2004;328:170.3 (Published 15 January 2004)

Ursula Margaret Hutchinson

BMJ 2004;328:171.1 (Published 15 January 2004)

Mary Rose Kirkpatrick

BMJ 2004;328:171.2 (Published 15 January 2004)

Hugh Hunter Morrison

BMJ 2004;328:171.3 (Published 15 January 2004)

Richard George Macmillan Poston

BMJ 2004;328:171.4 (Published 15 January 2004)

Shri Ram Purwar

BMJ 2004;328:171.5 (Published 15 January 2004)

Diane Rawle

BMJ 2004;328:171.6 (Published 15 January 2004)

Rasaratnam (“Esha”) Sarvesvaran

BMJ 2004;328:171.7 (Published 15 January 2004)

Minerva

Minerva

BMJ 2004;328:176 (Published 15 January 2004)

Fillers

Earlier mobilisation improves pneumonia outcomes

BMJ 2004;328:0.7 (Published 15 January 2004)

The internet—friend or foe?

BMJ 2004;328:133 (Published 15 January 2004)

Only one good

BMJ 2004;328:143 (Published 15 January 2004)

Childhood asthma

BMJ 2004;328:147.1 (Published 15 January 2004)

Hypnotism in Abyssinia

BMJ 2004;328:155.2 (Published 15 January 2004)

Owning up

BMJ 2004;328:161 (Published 15 January 2004)

Clinical Reviews

Severe life threatening malaria in endemic areas

BMJ 2004;328:154 (Published 15 January 2004)

Treating severe and complicated malaria

BMJ 2004;328:155.1 (Published 15 January 2004)

Clinical Reviews - continued

Glaucoma—2: Treatment

BMJ 2004;328:156 (Published 15 January 2004)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

WHO queries culling of civet cats

BMJ 2004;328:128.3 (Published 15 January 2004)

Report calls for universal health cover for all US citizens

BMJ 2004;328:128.4 (Published 15 January 2004)

WHO to revamp statistics to include sudden infant death syndrome

BMJ 2004;328:128.5 (Published 15 January 2004)

Health minister rebuts accusation over NHS star ratings

BMJ 2004;328:128.6 (Published 15 January 2004)

Zimbabwe's public sector doctors temporarily return to work

BMJ 2004;328:128.7 (Published 15 January 2004)

Arkansas plans to reward healthy employees

BMJ 2004;328:128.8 (Published 15 January 2004)

Urologists cleared of manslaughter now face GMC

BMJ 2004;328:128.9 (Published 15 January 2004)

Papers

The eVALuate study: two parallel randomised trials, one comparing laparoscopic with abdominal hysterectomy, the other comparing laparoscopic with vaginal hysterectomy

BMJ 2004;328:129 (Published 15 January 2004)

Cost effectiveness analysis of laparoscopic hysterectomy compared with standard hysterectomy: results from a randomised trial

BMJ 2004;328:134 (Published 15 January 2004)

Autopsy after termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly: retrospective cohort study

BMJ 2004;328:137 (Published 15 January 2004)

Comparison of requirements of research ethics committees in 11 European countries for a non-invasive interventional study

BMJ 2004;328:140 (Published 15 January 2004)

Sex ratios in healthcare occupations: population based study

BMJ 2004;328:141 (Published 15 January 2004)

Gender gap in undergraduate experience and performance in obstetrics and gynaecology: analysis of clinical experience logs

BMJ 2004;328:142 (Published 15 January 2004)

Primary care

Specialist nurse intervention to reduce unscheduled asthma care in a deprived multiethnic area: the east London randomised controlled trial for high risk asthma (ELECTRA)

BMJ 2004;328:144 (Published 15 January 2004)

Information in practice

Presentation on websites of possible benefits and harms from screening for breast cancer: cross sectional study

BMJ 2004;328:148 (Published 15 January 2004)

Surgical quality: review of Californian measures

BMJ 2004;328:152 (Published 15 January 2004)

Not everything that counts can be counted; not everything that can be counted counts

BMJ 2004;328:153 (Published 15 January 2004)

Education and debate

Public involvement in health care

BMJ 2004;328:159 (Published 15 January 2004)

Using industrial processes to improve patient care

BMJ 2004;328:162 (Published 15 January 2004)

Reviews

This week's Reviews section

Nature Encyclopaedia of the Human Genome

BMJ 2004;328:172 (Published 15 January 2004)

Alarm call over reality gameshow

BMJ 2004;328:173.1 (Published 15 January 2004)

Hit Parade

BMJ 2004;328:173.2 (Published 15 January 2004)

Fast and furious

BMJ 2004;328:174 (Published 15 January 2004)

Bioethics needs to rethink its agenda

BMJ 2004;328:175.1 (Published 15 January 2004)

Student selected caesareans

BMJ 2004;328:175.2 (Published 15 January 2004)

Corrections

Experts predict big rise in dengue fever in South East Asia

BMJ 2004;328:147.2 (Published 15 January 2004)

Indirect comparison meta-analysis of aspirin therapy after coronary surgery

BMJ 2004;328:147.3 (Published 15 January 2004)